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Effective Document Review
  • Michael Beumer

Effective Ediscovery Document Review Guidebook
Effective Ediscovery Document Review Guidebook 1000 600 Michael Beumer

This free guide is full of document review guidelines and best-practice tips for reviewing electronic evidence, protecting privilege, and winning ediscovery. Before we get into the tactics and strategy of modern document review, it is important to remember the exact purpose of the review phase in discovery. According to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule…

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Responsive Documents Discovery - Search Techniques
  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Document Review: Searches That Get Results
Ediscovery Document Review: Searches That Get Results 1200 700 Michael Beumer

DOC REVIEW Part III: Finding Responsive Documents in Discovery This post explains the search techniques that will uncover responsive documents in discovery and optimize your document review process. If you’ve read parts one and two of our three-part Document Review series, you can understand why the review process is the most time consuming, error prone,…

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eDiscovery and Document Review: Search & Privilege
  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Document Review: Structure Your Review for Success
Ediscovery Document Review: Structure Your Review for Success 1200 700 Michael Beumer

EDISCOVERY AND DOCUMENT REVIEW PART II: Organizing Your Evidence & Protecting Privilege Before we get too deep into our three part series on Protecting Privilege during Document Review, let’s ask, why is document review even necessary? According to to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, any party may obtain discovery regarding any…

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Organize eDiscovery data
  • Michael Beumer

eDiscovery Organization & Insight: Introducing Folder Categories
eDiscovery Organization & Insight: Introducing Folder Categories 1303 597 Michael Beumer

If you’ve been reading our three-part blog series on document review, you know that the ultimate goal of ediscovery is not just to search, find, and present relevant documents. ediscovery is about organizing and making sense of an otherwise disorganized collection of evidence.   We’re excited to unveil our completed redesign that delivers more powerful…

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eDiscovery Document Review Strategy
  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle
Ediscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle 1200 700 Michael Beumer

DOCUMENT REVIEW SERIES / PART ONE When most people think about ediscovery, they probably imagine a lawyer staring intently at a computer screen, hoping to find an incriminating document in a massive database of collected files. If that is your mental image, what you are picturing is the document review process in ediscovery. However, if…

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  • Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Data Migration at Law Firms: A Modern Success Story
Ediscovery Data Migration at Law Firms: A Modern Success Story 1201 628 Michael Beumer

This law firm had decades of legacy data from ediscovery and other litigation matters. Here’s how they conducted a successful ediscovery data migration for their move to the cloud with Nextpoint. Big Data in Ediscovery: Cloud to the Rescue Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm based in Minneapolis, had been using a legacy, on-premise…

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Advanced Ediscovery Data Filtering Techniques
  • Michael Beumer

Advanced Ediscovery Data Filtering Techniques
Advanced Ediscovery Data Filtering Techniques 1200 630 Michael Beumer

FILTERING SERIES / PART THREE Ediscovery processing is an often overlooked phase of litigation because it is considered a technical, not a legal practice. However, lawyers who understand processing and advanced ediscovery data filtering techniques are in a position to control the costs and scope of any matter. Advanced Ediscovery Data Filtering In Three Parts…

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Ransomware Attack Cybersecurity
  • Rakesh Madhava

A Message on Cybersecurity from CEO, Rakesh Madhava
A Message on Cybersecurity from CEO, Rakesh Madhava 1920 1280 Rakesh Madhava

To All Nextpoint Clients: After the news that Epiq Global had suffered a ransomware attack, it is appropriate that many will have data security at top of mind, and may be curious about Nextpoint security provisioning. Our sincere sympathies go out to our clients who have been affected as well as to the staff of…

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eDiscovery Keyword Filtering
  • Michael Beumer

Filter by Keyword in Ediscovery: The Human Role
Filter by Keyword in Ediscovery: The Human Role 1200 660 Michael Beumer

DATA FILTERING SERIES / PART TWO Ediscovery is automated in many important ways, but attorney judgment is still vital to the process. Legal teams need to make smart decisions up front about how to filter by keyword, what to cull, and what to keep. If you are too cautious about processing, you will have too…

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Data Culling in Ediscovery
  • Michael Beumer

The Art of Ediscovery Data Filtering and Culling
The Art of Ediscovery Data Filtering and Culling 1200 801 Michael Beumer

DATA FILTERING AND CULLING SERIES / PART ONE Every lawyer wants a smoking gun email, text, or Facebook post that will decidedly win a case or force a settlement. Given the mind-boggling volume of electronic data flooding our world, finding relevant, discoverable information is a more difficult and expensive endeavor. But, if you are strategic…

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